Concepts for a pattern-oriented analysis ensemble based on observational uncertainties

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 664, 2012, Pages 769-784

  Gorgas, T ^a   Dorninger, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Principal component analysis; Stochastic simulations; VERA; Wavelet decomposition

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; ERROR ESTIMATES; HIGH RESOLUTION; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS; REFERENCE DATA; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; UNCERTAINTY INFORMATIONS; VERA; WAVELET-BASED APPROACH;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PERTURBATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84859750980     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.949     Document Type: Article

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